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Wired UK: Is Palmer Luckey right about Magic Leap being a tragic heap?

Wired UK reporter K.G. Orphanides was doing a follow up to Palmer Luckey’s Magic Leap is a Tragic Heap blog post and contacted me for my opinion. The Wired U.K. article is entitled, “Is Palmer Luckey right about Magic Leap being a tragic heap?”…

  • Karl Guttag
  • September 2, 2018
  • 8 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD

One Thing Palmer Luckey May Have Gotten Half-Wrong in His “Magic Leap is a Tragic Heap”

As I wrote last time, Palmer Luckey in his article, “Magic Leap is a Tragic Heap” did a brilliant job of succinctly explaining how Magic Leap over-hyped their device and how the two focus planes is a tragic fail. I…

  • Karl Guttag
  • August 29, 2018
  • 6 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Technology History

Palmer Luckey, Founder of Oculus, “Magic Leap is a Tragic Heap”

I got a “pingback” that another site was linking to my blog article “Magic Leap Fiber Scanning Display (FSD) – “The Big Con” at the “Core.” It turned out that the article, “Magic Leap is a Tragic Heap” was a…

  • Karl Guttag
  • August 27, 2018
  • 6 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Pico Projection, Technology History

iFixit’s Magic Leap One Teardown Confirms KGOnTech’s Analysis From November 2016

Just a quick, but timely note today. I was asked by iFixit to help them identify the optical components for their Magic Leap One (ML1) teardown published today. The picture above is from iFixit but with my labeling. It turns out…

  • Karl Guttag
  • August 23, 2018
  • 24 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Startups, Use Model

Magic Leap Livestream 02 Gives Up Some Clues

Introduction In live video event that Magic Leap billed as “Meet Magic Leap One” (MLO) and promoted as, “Tune in to Twitch at 2 pm ET today as we walk you through the Magic Leap One hardware and platform.” For…

  • Karl Guttag
  • June 10, 2018
  • 12 Comments
  • Pico Projection, Use Model

Magic Leap’s CEO Rony Abovitz Responds KGOnTech And Dodges Questions

Introduction Rony Abovitz, CEO of Magic Leap, gave me a couple of shout-outs on his Twitter feed. I have cut and pasted images from the feed at the end of this article. I wanted to make a quick to respond…

  • Karl Guttag
  • April 15, 2018
  • 22 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Startups, Use Model

“The Magic Leap One Experience” (Part 2, ML1’s Terrible View of the Real World)

Introduction In my last post, I discussed the process of building my Magic Leap One (ML1) view simulator model (hereafter referred to as “model”), and now I would like to show you what the view of the real world will…

  • Karl Guttag
  • April 13, 2018
  • 14 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Micro-LED, Pico Projection, Startups, Technology History, Use Model

Karl Guttag Interview Parts 2 and 3 On The AR Show Podcast

Jason McDowall has posted parts 2 and 3 of his “The AR Show Podcast” interview with me.  Links to the show are below or you can subscribe to the podcast. Karl Guttag (KGOnTech) on Microdisplay Technologies and the Hype of…

  • Karl Guttag
  • March 16, 2018
  • 4 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Pico Projection, Startups, Technology History, Use Model

Interview On The AR Show Podcast

Jason McDowall asked me to be one of his first interviews for his new “The AR Show Podcast.” Jason asked many excellent questions covering my history in the electronics industry in part 1. In the upcoming part 2 of the interview,…

  • Karl Guttag
  • March 6, 2018
  • 4 Comments
  • Augmented Reality and HMD, Technology History, Use Model

Magic Leap One – FOV and Tunnel Vision

Introduction I was making a list of “what we know about Magic Leap One” when I thought back to Sarah Kimberly Eusche’s analysis on her blog SAKIE  and her article where she calculated the Field of view based on the Rolling Stone Reveil of Magic Leap One (MLO).…

  • Karl Guttag
  • February 22, 2018
  • 18 Comments
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